This includes west Hamilton offices of many major banks, such as Bank of New Zealand, ANZ and Westpac, as well as a branch of New Zealand Post and Kiwibank.
Kiwibank is owned by the New Zealand government and the company's Board of Directors was chaired by former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger from 2001-2010.
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Jim Anderton revealed in his valedictory speech that after spending three hours trying to convince then Finance Minister Michael Cullen, Annette King told Cullen 'Michael, Jim's beaten back every argument against the bank we've ever put up. For God's sake, give him the bloody bank.'
In 2002 New Zealand Post, as part of government policy, opened the bank Kiwibank Limited in the majority of its PostShop and Books and More (now Take Note) branches.
Many Take Note stores include a NZ Post agency and Kiwibank service agency.
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